[Gay State Conservative]

I’m a tad older than RBG-——you make it sound as if we are some strange species.

When a patient breaks a hip he/she is typically bedridden for at least a few days...and longer for older people.When an older person is bedridden for any length of time they tend to develop pneumonia...a condition that's more and more dangerous the older one gets.

I know this from having worked for years in a big city ER.We'd regularly get little old ladies in from nearby nursing homes after having fallen and fractured their hips.

Often,as these patients were being taken up to the ortho floor the nurses would say something like "she won't leave here alive".When saying saying that they had pneumonia in mind.

[Mears]

“Often,as these patients were being taken up to the ortho floor the nurses would say something like “she won’t leave here alive”.”

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Sounds like quite a caring nursing staff./s

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[Vermont Lt]

I work at a hospital. You are so right. Talking to the experienced nurses is like talking to an old mechanic. Remember the guys who could walk up to a car, listen for ten seconds and tell you what was wrong and that you were about to blow a rod. 30+ year nurses are like that. They take one look at a chart and they know.